Today in History: August 15, power restored after largest blackout in U.S. history
Nowadays is Friday Aug the th day of There are days left in the year In contemporary times in history On Aug bouncing back from the largest blackout in U S history cities from the Midwest to Manhattan restored power to tens of millions of people Also on this date In Macbeth King of Scots was killed in battle by Malcolm the eldest son of King Duncan whom Macbeth had slain Related Articles Man accused of faking his death to avoid rape charges is unveiled guilty of sexual assault in Utah For these incarcerated students online school has been a catastrophe Pam Bondi fires man accused of throwing sandwich at federal agent during Trump DC intervention In the modern day in History August FDR signs Social Guard Act Trump pledged to move homeless people from Washington What we know and don t know about his plans In the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans In humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory In India gained independence after nearly years of British rule In as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire In the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York more than people attended the three-day festival which would become a watershed event in American music and values In F W de Klerk was sworn in as acting president of South Africa one day after P W Botha resigned because of a power struggle within the National Party In people were killed by a car bomb that tore apart the center of Omagh OH -mah Northern Ireland a splinter group calling itself the Real IRA claimed responsibility In the Taliban regained control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after the withdrawal of U S forces from the country Currently s Birthdays Actor Jim Dale is Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is U S Rep Maxine Waters D-Calif is Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is Songwriter Jimmy Webb is Actor Phyllis Smith is Britain s Princess Anne is Actor Tess Harper is Actor Zeljko Ivanek ZEHL -koh eh-VAHN -ehk is Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio is Film director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu ihn-YAH -ee-tu is Philanthropist Melinda French Gates is Actor Debra Messing is Actor Anthony Anderson is Actor Ben Affleck is Olympic gold medal beach volleyball competitor Kerri Walsh Jennings is Rock singer Joe Jonas The Jonas Brothers is Actor Jennifer Lawrence is
